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Join us as we explore the world through stories set in different parts of the globe. We will gain insights into various cultures as we read our way around the world!
On the 4th Monday of each month, join us as we read our way around the world and gain new insights into a diversity of cultures.
At Thanksgiving, we turn our focus to home, family and food, which fits perfectly with November's book, Erica Bauermeister's The School of Essential Ingredients. The book was a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for fiction. More about the story:
Reminiscent of Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate, this is a gorgeously written novel about life, love, and the magic of food.
The School of Essential Ingredients follows the lives of eight students who gather in Lillian’s Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class. It soon becomes clear, however, that each one seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen.
Students include Claire, a young mother struggling with the demands of her family; Antonia, an Italian kitchen designer learning to adapt to life in America; and Tom, a widower mourning the loss of his wife to breast cancer. Chef Lillian, a woman whose connection with food is both soulful and exacting, helps them to create dishes whose flavor and techniques expand beyond the restaurant and into the secret corners of her students’ lives.
One by one the students are transformed by the aromas, flavors, and textures of Lillian’s food, including a white-on-white cake that prompts wistful reflections on the sweet fragility of love and a peppery heirloom tomato sauce that seems to spark one romance but end another. Brought together by the power of food and companionship, the lives of the characters mingle and intertwine, united by the revealing nature of what can be created in the kitchen.
Copies will be available on display at the Orange branch library. I have reserved several copies, so if you need a copy of the book please email jkelch@delawarelibrary.org.
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